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  • noun literally A lover of qualia.
  • noun A cognitive scientist who endorses qualia as being unmeasurable by heterophenomenology.

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Examples

  • “Out of the closet: a qualophile confronts qualophobia”.

    Consciousness Van Gulick, Robert 2004

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  • I have found that many scientists who think they are newfound friends of qualia turn out to use the term in ways no self- respecting qualophile philosopher would countenance.

    --Daniel Clement Dennett, 2005, Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness, p. 87

    July 25, 2010